The town of Haslemere and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south west Surrey, England, approximately 62 km south west of London. Together with the settlements of Hindhead and Beacon Hill, they comprise the civil parish of Haslemere in the Borough of Waverley. The tripoint between the counties of Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex is at the west end of Shottermill.
Haslemere railway station is operated by South Western Railway, with services to London Waterloo and Portsmouth. The A3, the main road between London and Portsmouth, passes underneath nearby Hindhead.
The River Wey drains the highest hill in Sussex, Blackdown, which is linked to Haslemere by a footpath, rising in six streams south and north-west of the town, which form small finger-like valleys. These unite to form a brook that follows the county boundary and another that follows the railway line, combining to form the river itself west of the town. Despite these flows, much of the town, which sits close and high above these brooks, drains east into the basin of the Sussex River Arun, the natural wooded headwaters of which have been recognised as part of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.